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Philoxenus of Alexandria

Philoxenus of Alexandria

c. 85 BCE–c. 25 BCE · Alexandria

Philoxenus of Alexandria (active 1st century BCE) was a Greek grammarian who worked in Rome, known for studies of the Greek language, including investigations into word origins and dialects. His writings survive only in fragments quoted by later grammarians.

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AlexandriaEgypt

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About Alexandria

Alexandria is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.

In Alexandria at the same time

Tryphon I Grammaticus, Aenesidemus, Didymus Alexandrinus, Strabo, Aristonicus of Alexandria

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